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Wait until Kamala gets in, she’ll make Biden look like JFK.
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and post #160,000 too!
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Who exactly is the demographic you're describing? Social conservatives who are holding their nose to vote for Trump because he isn't a hardcore fundy? They're going to be put off voting for him because of some statement from Melania? That doesn't make sense, if Harris gets in such people are going to get 0% of what they want unless the Melania thing convinced them to take up accelerationism.
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Huh the woman who had a meltdown over Trump in 2016 really has come a long way since then. I did not see that coming.
One thing that never fails to be satisfying is watching someone admit they made mistakes and try to do better.
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For my 8,000 page wish I hope Nancy Pelosi chokes on her own vomit tonight.
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She started some friendly banter with Actual Justice Warrior a little while back and its been uphill ever since. He has been covering her journey.
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No hard feelings, solid joke.
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Jeb Bush will sweep in at the last moment and take victory from the hands of both Blumpf and JOBmala Harris. That is the late October surprise for you.
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Welcome to page 8000!
Make
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Welcome to page 8000!
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I hope that wine shrilling bitch chokes on someone else's vomit, since we wish casting out here.
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wouldnt it be hilarious if it just said there was nothing worthy of note...
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A Republican member of Congress was found to have worn blackface at an old university Halloween party.
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"Why aren't you giving those dying people more help!?"
"Orange man bad."
Orange man helps them instead.
"NOOOOOO! You're not supposed to do that, we are!"
"Okay so how are you going to help them?"
A sick heckin' $750 to cover those baby funeral expenses is given to the REDNECK PAUPERS.
"And don't do anything else to help them, send the retard Infantry to help them and NO ONE ELSE."
Fuck yooooooooouu.
HAPPY 8000, BABY. Let's resist our morally correct urge to be upset in a Jesus disrespecting way on this fine third day of Spooky Month!
"Orange man bad."
Orange man helps them instead.
"NOOOOOO! You're not supposed to do that, we are!"
"Okay so how are you going to help them?"
A sick heckin' $750 to cover those baby funeral expenses is given to the REDNECK PAUPERS.
"And don't do anything else to help them, send the retard Infantry to help them and NO ONE ELSE."
Fuck yooooooooouu.
HAPPY 8000, BABY. Let's resist our morally correct urge to be upset in a Jesus disrespecting way on this fine third day of Spooky Month!
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8000 posts! we did it reddit!
i'll start the wiki to list conspiracy theories on why the mods will eventually need to close an 8000 page thread hosted on decade old forum software
i'll start the wiki to list conspiracy theories on why the mods will eventually need to close an 8000 page thread hosted on decade old forum software
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HAPPY 8000 PAGES!
LETS GET IT TO 16K BEFORE THE ELECTION!
LETS GET IT TO 16K BEFORE THE ELECTION!
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You don't hate them enough.
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How a wonky centrist catchphrase explains Harris’s platform
The Washington Post (archive.ph)
By Jordan Weissmann
2024-10-03 13:14:11GMT
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How a wonky centrist catchphrase explains Harris’s platform
The Washington Post (archive.ph)
By Jordan Weissmann
2024-10-03 13:14:11GMT
Jordan Weissmann is an economics and politics journalist in D.C. His work has appeared in Slate, the Atlantic and Semafor.
When Kamala Harris talks about her economic plans on the stump, she tends to lean on kitchen table language about bringing down the cost of living for families and creating opportunities for the middle class.
But if you really want to understand the ideas tying together big planks of her platform, it’s helpful to be familiar with a two-word catchphrase that has captured the imagination of the coastal wonk class in recent years. The Democratic nominee increasingly appears to be running on an “abundance agenda.”
Born in a 2022 article by the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson, that term has caught on as a useful shorthand for the notion that the United States could solve many of its biggest problems if we just got better and faster at building things.
The country needs more housing, transit infrastructure and clean energy if it wants to defeat challenges such as sky-high rents and climate change, the argument goes. These initiatives will require lots of public spending, like President Joe Biden’s renewable power subsidies. But they’ll also require pruning the dense thicket of regulations that make the construction of just about everything in this country a painstakingly slow and expensive task. The view is a mix of progressives’ love of active government with libertarians’ loathing of bureaucracy.
As Harris put it during her big economic speech in Pittsburgh last week: “In America, it takes too long and it costs too much to build.” She vowed to work with Congress and state governments on permitting reforms to speed projects up and “cut red tape,” whether it’s a new apartment tower or new factory.
“The Empire State Building, you know how long it took to build that? One year. The Pentagon, you know how long that took? 16 months,” Harris remarked. “No one can tell me we can’t build quickly in our country.”
As far as I know, Harris has never uttered the words “abundance agenda” on the trail — which is almost certainly for the best, given that her goal is to win over swing voters, not think tankers.
But with her call for far-reaching permitting reforms and recent positioning on energy and housing, she has been leaning hard into many of the core ideas behind the catchphrase. It’s a welcome shift from early in her campaign, when Harris appeared to be veering in the opposite direction. She seemed to suggest she would take on inflation by implementing expansive rules against “price gouging,” and she backed Biden’s call for temporary national rent controls — populist feints that play well with some voters but can backfire by warping economic incentives for businesses.
Those proposals have taken a back seat in her campaign now, at least if the detailed platform she released last week is any guide.
Harris’s housing plan, for instance, is a sprawling collection of ideas, but the one thread tying most of it together is the goal of creating more homes, and fast. It includes subsidies for first-time home buyers and affordable housing developers. She proposes a $40 billion “innovation” fund that could encourage states to relax zoning rules that hamstring development. The rent cap gets nary a mention.
When it comes to climate issues, many traditional American environmentalists tend to focus on conserving power and restricting fossil fuel production. Abundance advocates prefer to emphasize the need to build out renewables as quickly as possible, with the promise of making electricity plentiful and cheap over time. They see efforts to cut off the flow of oil and gas by fiat as politically and economically counterproductive.
Harris? She’s promising to keep families’ utility bills low by continuing the country’s streak of record energy production while greening the grid. She has also done a 180 on her old opposition to fracking and has taken to highlighting how oil and gas drilling have hit all-time highs under the Biden administration. Another win for team abundance.
There are more niche, but still important, examples, too. As part of the $100 billion industrial policy plan she unveiled last week, Harris said she would support the creation of a strategic stockpile of the critical minerals used in everything from semiconductors to electric car batteries.
Abundance types have been calling for such a move to reduce our reliance on Chinese production and ensure our supplies are resilient to disasters like Hurricane Helene, which has threatened access to a critical source of quartz for the global computer chip industry.
To some extent, Harris’s positions are an extension of the Biden administration’s, which went big on industrial policy with the Inflation Reduction Act and Chips and Science Act and has begun putting muscle behind permitting reforms. The president on Wednesday signed a bill that eases up environmental reviews for semiconductor plants, which some conservation groups and prominent Capitol Hill Democrats opposed.
And as with Biden, it’s not clear if Harris is on board with every point in the abundance agenda. The leading thinkers behind the movement often deride “everything-bagel liberalism,” a term the New York Times’s Ezra Klein uses to describe how Democrats frequently lard government-funded projects with costly extra requirements meant to achieve tangential policy goals, like requiring new factories to provide day care or buy raw materials made in the United States. The Biden White House has a habit of indulging that habit.
Still, Harris’s policy instincts appear to be breaking in a promising direction — away from gimmicky promises to try to ban inflation, and toward ideas that will help make the United States a bit more literally a land of plenty. You never know whether an administration will make good on its platform once faced with the task of actually putting it into action. But personally, I think there are abundant reasons for optimism.
When Kamala Harris talks about her economic plans on the stump, she tends to lean on kitchen table language about bringing down the cost of living for families and creating opportunities for the middle class.
But if you really want to understand the ideas tying together big planks of her platform, it’s helpful to be familiar with a two-word catchphrase that has captured the imagination of the coastal wonk class in recent years. The Democratic nominee increasingly appears to be running on an “abundance agenda.”
Born in a 2022 article by the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson, that term has caught on as a useful shorthand for the notion that the United States could solve many of its biggest problems if we just got better and faster at building things.
The country needs more housing, transit infrastructure and clean energy if it wants to defeat challenges such as sky-high rents and climate change, the argument goes. These initiatives will require lots of public spending, like President Joe Biden’s renewable power subsidies. But they’ll also require pruning the dense thicket of regulations that make the construction of just about everything in this country a painstakingly slow and expensive task. The view is a mix of progressives’ love of active government with libertarians’ loathing of bureaucracy.
As Harris put it during her big economic speech in Pittsburgh last week: “In America, it takes too long and it costs too much to build.” She vowed to work with Congress and state governments on permitting reforms to speed projects up and “cut red tape,” whether it’s a new apartment tower or new factory.
“The Empire State Building, you know how long it took to build that? One year. The Pentagon, you know how long that took? 16 months,” Harris remarked. “No one can tell me we can’t build quickly in our country.”
As far as I know, Harris has never uttered the words “abundance agenda” on the trail — which is almost certainly for the best, given that her goal is to win over swing voters, not think tankers.
But with her call for far-reaching permitting reforms and recent positioning on energy and housing, she has been leaning hard into many of the core ideas behind the catchphrase. It’s a welcome shift from early in her campaign, when Harris appeared to be veering in the opposite direction. She seemed to suggest she would take on inflation by implementing expansive rules against “price gouging,” and she backed Biden’s call for temporary national rent controls — populist feints that play well with some voters but can backfire by warping economic incentives for businesses.
Those proposals have taken a back seat in her campaign now, at least if the detailed platform she released last week is any guide.
Harris’s housing plan, for instance, is a sprawling collection of ideas, but the one thread tying most of it together is the goal of creating more homes, and fast. It includes subsidies for first-time home buyers and affordable housing developers. She proposes a $40 billion “innovation” fund that could encourage states to relax zoning rules that hamstring development. The rent cap gets nary a mention.
When it comes to climate issues, many traditional American environmentalists tend to focus on conserving power and restricting fossil fuel production. Abundance advocates prefer to emphasize the need to build out renewables as quickly as possible, with the promise of making electricity plentiful and cheap over time. They see efforts to cut off the flow of oil and gas by fiat as politically and economically counterproductive.
Harris? She’s promising to keep families’ utility bills low by continuing the country’s streak of record energy production while greening the grid. She has also done a 180 on her old opposition to fracking and has taken to highlighting how oil and gas drilling have hit all-time highs under the Biden administration. Another win for team abundance.
There are more niche, but still important, examples, too. As part of the $100 billion industrial policy plan she unveiled last week, Harris said she would support the creation of a strategic stockpile of the critical minerals used in everything from semiconductors to electric car batteries.
Abundance types have been calling for such a move to reduce our reliance on Chinese production and ensure our supplies are resilient to disasters like Hurricane Helene, which has threatened access to a critical source of quartz for the global computer chip industry.
To some extent, Harris’s positions are an extension of the Biden administration’s, which went big on industrial policy with the Inflation Reduction Act and Chips and Science Act and has begun putting muscle behind permitting reforms. The president on Wednesday signed a bill that eases up environmental reviews for semiconductor plants, which some conservation groups and prominent Capitol Hill Democrats opposed.
And as with Biden, it’s not clear if Harris is on board with every point in the abundance agenda. The leading thinkers behind the movement often deride “everything-bagel liberalism,” a term the New York Times’s Ezra Klein uses to describe how Democrats frequently lard government-funded projects with costly extra requirements meant to achieve tangential policy goals, like requiring new factories to provide day care or buy raw materials made in the United States. The Biden White House has a habit of indulging that habit.
Still, Harris’s policy instincts appear to be breaking in a promising direction — away from gimmicky promises to try to ban inflation, and toward ideas that will help make the United States a bit more literally a land of plenty. You never know whether an administration will make good on its platform once faced with the task of actually putting it into action. But personally, I think there are abundant reasons for optimism.
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